Until Proven Innocent (Bookcassette(r) Edition) [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Susan Kelly (Author), Pamela Klein (Reader)

Book Description

Series: Multi Track | Publication Date: March 1, 1991

Tall, red-haired Liz Connors is a former college professor turned crime writer who is expert at digging up details even the cops couldn't find. This time she has to: her lover, Detective Lieutenant Jack Lingemann, is being held without bail on a murder charge, and all Boston is crying for his head.

She enlists the help of two reporters and two cop-friends to dig up information that lies buried in the annals of Cambridge history. Her investigation discovers links between a series of violent attacks on women, a dishonest real estate tycoon, and a tragic fire in a tenement; all are clues to the real killer's identity. Until Proven Innocent is a galvanizing puzzle and a delight.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In her fourth appearance (after The Gemini Man ), freelance crime writer Liz Connors of Cambridge, Mass., leads a group of interested friends--two from the Cambridge police force and two local reporters--to solve a confluence of crimes that threaten the career and life of her lover, police Lt. Jack Lingeman. A broad sweep of seemingly unrelated crimes--the killing of a local businessman, the vicious serial beatings of women and murder of another--is followed by charges of corruption levied against Jack by a former cop. Soon Jack is charged with rape by a woman whose son he had arrested years before. When Jack is jailed after that woman is killed with his gun, Liz and company go into action. Liz is thoroughly likable in her worry and the action she takes to save Jack; she disappoints, however, in failing to make connections between crimes that the reader can't miss, and she jettisons her hard-won credibility in the melodramatic finale. Excluding these lapses, however, Kelly's heroine is as recognizable as a neighbor or friend, and as such, her adventures earn our interest.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Those familiar with Kelly's protagonist, free-lance true crime writer Elizabeth Connor, will be upset to know that her live-in policeman lover, Detective John Lingemann, has been framed. His higher-ups suspend John when a woman connected with a three-year-old case accuses him of rape; then, his gun fires the shots that kill the woman. Connor subsequently joins forces with two journalist friends and two sympathetic detectives to prove John's innocence. This so-so plot works well enough most of the time; however, narrator Connor's occasional lapses into uncharacteristic stupidity, the uneven prose, and the overall lack of conviction make this a marginal purchase.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Bookcassette; Unabridged edition (March 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930435737
• ISBN-13: 978-0930435738
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,017,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but a few glitches, May 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Until Proven Innocent (Hardcover)

Basically, a well-written crime novel. Some proverbial red flags, however, were districting as I listened on audio: (1) Protagonist Liz, the free-lance writer, finishes typing out the last page ON HER TYPEWRITER! This is the 90s; no one uses a typewriter anymore; plus she'd e-mail or fax her manuscripts, not snail-mail them. (2) The two reporters FROM DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS worked together in this story. In real life, competing reporters get along like two beta-fish in the same bowl. They don't do each other any favors, and they don't share information until their story is in print. (3) Can't remember the other one....